The steam engine's story involves ingenuity and collaboration. Hero of Alexandria's early device showed steam's potential. Thomas Savery's engine pumped water from mines. James Watt improved ...

An atmospheric steam engine built for Caprington Colliery, Ayshire, in 1811 to a design developed by Thomas Newcomen a century earlier. This was less efficient than James Watt's steam engine, but ...

Devon-born Thomas Newcomen's engine was first used to pump water from a deep coal mine shaft in Dudley in 1712. The invention allowed miners to extract previously inaccessible coal.

His new book, A Rough Ride to the Future, introduces a new theory – that the invention of the Newcomen steam engine in 1712 triggered a phase of "accelerated evolution" – but also settles old ...

This lecture is for ChemNet Members. It's the 300th anniversary of the Newcomen Steam Engine but why should we celebrate, and what's it got to do with Chemistry? Well - where to start? Steam engines ...

The first working steam engine had been patented in 1698 and by the time of Watt's birth, Newcomen engines were pumping water from mines all over the country. In around 1764, Watt was given a ...